TL;DR

Linus and the crew kick things off by dissecting the massive AWS outage—spoiler: it was a DNS snafu that took down everything from Twitch to Steam—then jump into Valve’s CS2 update wiping billions off its market cap and the theatrics of Chinese investors. They also marvel at the absurdity of jet engines powering data centers (“AI slop, anyone?”), and test-drive Samsung’s AI-powered Galaxy XR headset while debating if smart glasses will ever catch on (neural interfaces, too!).

The second half is a whirlwind of tech oddities: SuperBox bricking bargain gadgets, OpenAI’s Atlas vs Microsoft’s Mico, YouTube’s new AI-likeness detector, and a coffee-table book of iconic phones. There’s even a head-scratcher where police thought a bag of Doritos was a weapon, a tiny PRIMA implant restoring sight, and Microsoft demanding 30% margin from Xbox devs—plus all the usual banter about LTT’s latest gear, spidey scares, and “dumbest Linus move” confessions.

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